PyPSA Earth Documentation

Getting ready to change the world!

This repository contains the documentation of PyPSA-Earth including:

hackathon material in folder hackathon (mandatory for beginners): it contains a 6-step introduction starting from the basics to learn PyPSA-Earth
sample notebooks to investigate the PyPSA-Earth repository in the folder notebooks
storage of documentation images in the folder doc

Installation

Make sure to have installed the PyPSA-Earth package and environment available at this link
Open your terminal at the parent location where PyPSA-Earth has been installed. Type the following in your terminal to download the package from GitHub:
```
   .../pypsa/earth/parent/folder % git clone https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/documentation.git
```

1. Hackathon material

Expected experience level: Beginner
Duration hackathon: 3 hours
Duration extra DIY exercises: 5 hours

Content

Slides and jupyter notebook examples are provided in the folder hackathon. While there is a lot of theory and text, we always recommend to code & check out stuff where possible. Small examples also help you to "do rather than only observe".

Full GitHub workflow exercise for a PyPSA-Earth contribution
The architecture of PyPSA-Earth on GitHub
Development tools, requirements and installation of PyPSA-Earth
3 ways of Snakemake executions and introduction to debugging
Code-Dev story on efficient vs. poor code and the role of discord
Guideline on "How to add to need regions to PyPSA-Earth"
Wrap-up - Hackathon-slides.pdf

List of selected self-learning material

Aim: We provide a couple of links to efficient self-learning material

Fundamentals of energy economics and energy systems, great open lecture materials from Tom Brown
Unix-Shell, the Unix shell is fundamental to a wide range of advanced computing tasks, including high-performance computing
Python Dojo, a series of Python videos for absolute beginners
PyPSA examples, that help understanding what PyPSA does. Click on Binder at the PyPSA page opens the examples.
Atlite examples, that help understanding what Atlite does. Requires to install Atlite and open Jupyter notebooks
Snakemake tutorial, learn more about the powers of Snakemake

Useful packages to dive deeper into:

List of hero's with a successful Pull Request (GitHub exercise)

Lukas Franken from Germany
Davide Fioriti from Italy
Matin Mahmood from United Kingdom
Max Parzen from Germany
Thomas Lesieur from France
Jan Ohlenbusch from Germany
Taco Niet from Canada
Pierre McWhannel from Canada
Mariana Rodríguez-Arce from Costa Rica
Hana Elattar from Egypt
Yerbol Akhmetov from Kazakhstan
Kumbuso Joshua Nyoni from Zambia
Gift Sichone from Zambia
Chris Mambwe from Zambia
Akshat Mittal from India
Albert Chitandula from Zambia
Albert Solà Vilalta from Spain
Tommaso Ferrucci from Italy

2. Notebooks for data exploration

The folder notebooks contains useful notebooks to explore the data of PyPSA-Earth. The notebooks are self-explanatory and the pypsa-earth environment is needed to successfully run the examples.

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